(a) Connections to sanitary sewer from any lateral to the City Sanitary Sewer System requires the filing of an application with Service-Safety Director or his designate. Said application shall be accompanied by the appropriate connection fee as set forth in the following schedule:
BUILDING CONNECTION | CASH FEE |
Single Family Residential, Mobile Home, Apartment Complex, Multi Family Residence, Inside City Manufactured Home Park, Condominium. (Duplex or Multi-Family Dwellings with the potential for separate ownership shall have outside City separate laterals from the building to the right-of-way line). | $285.00 per unit inside City $535.00 per unit outside City |
Commercial Building | $310.00 per unit inside City $560.00 per unit outside City |
Industrial Building | $410.00 per unit inside City $660.00 per unit outside City |
(b) A special Sanitary Sewer Development Fund is established to receive income derived in accordance with subsection (a) hereof, and from which expenditures may be made for engineering and various consulting services and for the defrayment of other costs connected with the continuing maintenance, improvement and future expansion and extension of the City sewer system.
(c) Any person desiring to tap in the City sewer shall make application and fully comply with all of the provisions set forth in this chapter. The Service-Safety Director and or duly appointed employee shall then issue the permit. The fee for issuing the permit shall be thirty dollars ($30.00) and shall be paid irrespective of any other fees or charges provided herein. The permit must designate the person making the tap.
(d) No tap or reconnection shall be made on any City sewer except by a bonded sewer tapper. Each bonded sewer tapper must have on deposit with the Service-Safety Director a bond to the amount of ten thousand dollars ($10,000.00) to keep the City free and harmless from any costs, expenses, damages or claims arising or growing out of such right or privileges so granted.
(e) At all times when joint material and/or dimensions are not compatible, a commercial adaptor or connecting device must be used, in compliance with Ohio EPA regulations.
(f) All applications for sewer tap under these sections shall be provided an application packet as set forth in Appendix A and incorporated in this chapter.
(g) Any tap into the sewer system will be considered a separate tap and shall be assessed as such.
(h) Any duplex or multi-family unit with potential for separate ownership shall have separate taps.
(i) Waiver of Deposits. The Service-Safety Director shall waive all connection fees on applications to connect to the City Sanitary Sewer System under the following conditions:
(1) Property owned or leased by the City;
(2) Private property upon which assessments have been levied by the City for construction of sanitary sewers and less than twenty (20) years have elapsed from date of said assessment;
(3) In proven cases of extreme hardship, the City may investigate the feasibility of waiving fees and completing repair work.
(Ord. 9-2024. Passed 3-18-24.)